Private Eye reveals identity of ‘Lunchtime O’Boulez’
NewsThe london satirical magazine, in its 60th birthday issue, has broken cover for its original leaker of orchestral information, the notoriously waspish and accurate Lunchtime O’Boulez (a liquid pseudonym).
The Eye’s former editor Richard Ingrams reveals that John Boyden, who died this month, started the column after he was sacked as managing director by the London Symphony Orchestra. Booze, bad behaviour and civil war at the LSO were frequent topics of the column, giving the orchestra a more raffish status than its London rivals, an attraction none of them ever quite matched.
Rest in peace, John. M’learned friends can’t get you now.
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